It's frustrating when you feel like you have a message to get out and people just judge you regardless.

Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.

The only person who can confine you is yourself.

We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message.

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.

I've learned that you only become as creative as you possibly can by staying independent.